junio 7, 2008

Now for a European police force

“SECRET plans to set up a single European police force are being drawn up in Brussels.
The move – which could see foreign police officers patrolling our streets – sparked a furious reaction in Britain last night.Details of the plan are buried in documents detailing the European Commission’s budget proposals.

They show the Commission is to fund a study on “the feasibility of and obstacles to the creation of a federal police force for the EU”.

The EU has set up the Europol organisation to encourage greater co-operation between national police forces but the latest plan would replace Britain’s localised system with one controlled from a single place, probably Brussels.

Shadow Home Secretary David Davis said last night: “This is a deeply alarming development. Responsibility for policing must remain in the hands of national governments, not a European force that is not accountable to the British public.

“The Government must stand up for British interests and make clear their opposition to this proposal at the very outset.”

A spokeswoman for the European Commission last night said it did not support the idea of a single police force but was only pressing for greater co-operation between national police forces on tackling cross-border crime.”

The plans are SECRET… and then there is the main question: Does the people want a European police force??? Would that increase our security as citizens or State’s control over citizens?

And the most important thing: how would the operations be chosen? and by who? And what would be the process to chose those who would chose the operations?
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